Author Dan Wiederer has cleared up the rumor about the alleged “relations” between former North Carolina guard Bobby Frasor and ESPN sideline reporter Erin Andrews in his new book Blue Streak: the highs, lows and behind-the-scenes hijinks of a national champion.

Bobby Frasor, who wrote the forward for the book, admitted he allowed the rumor to flourish because it helped his “street credibility.” Of course, he could have cared less about what the rumor did for a professional working journalist’s career.

“You don’t want to deny it,” he said. “But you also don’t want to lie and make it a bigger rumor than it already was.”

So Frasor just smiled whenever he was asked about the gossip.

“That’s my girl,” he would say with a laugh.

Not long after the Deadspin story surfaced, he also called his dad.

“Dad. You’ve got to check this out. There’s a story on the Internet that says I hooked up with Erin Andrews. You wouldn’t believe what this is doing to my street cred.”

Not long after the rumor surfaced, just before Frasor’s trip back to Chicago for the Valparaiso game, his dad was asked by The Daily Southtown in suburban Illinois about the Andrews fling.

“Yeah, Bobby called me one day, and he usually doesn’t call unless something big is happening in his life,” the elder Frasor said. “He was all excited. ‘Dad, my street value has just gone up big-time.’ He said, ‘I don’t know where this is coming from, but I don’t mind.’”